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Unread 10/29/2012, 09:08 PM   #351
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My rescues (neon green candy cane and galaxea) are coming along nicely, BTW. Thanks for your help!
Glad to hear it Deb! I think we need some photos!


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Unread 11/06/2012, 04:54 PM   #352
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Finally have before and now pics




This is neat because its a bunch of individual bubble corals that I could probably frag into thier own little frags.



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Unread 11/06/2012, 05:05 PM   #353
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This one I ended up cutting into 3 pieces. I traded off the 2 larger ones and still have one left. (traded them off when they looked good not when I cut it up)


The last frag



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Unread 11/06/2012, 09:22 PM   #354
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Nice job Newby! Anything in particular you did for them? I love that chalice save...very nice!


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Unread 11/06/2012, 09:49 PM   #355
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Nice job Newby! Anything in particular you did for them? I love that chalice save...very nice!
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Just direct feeding until they look like they are heading in the right direction.
The bubble coral I placed REAL high up and I think that helped alot(3" from the top. The chalice I think was more luck than anything else. Just left it on my save rack(can see them in the pic) and let it be.


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Unread 11/07/2012, 09:09 AM   #356
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I just got a elegance coral that is receding on one side the skeleton is exposed but the rest looks good does anyone have any experience with saving these as help would be appreciated thank you


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Unread 11/07/2012, 04:26 PM   #357
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Newby - nice call on fragging that chalice up. It looked pretty...well...just gross. Did all those corals come from the same place? Was it water chemistry? That chalice looked like how I've been seeing some chalices with black bugs lately, but that doesn't sound like the case.

jlong11 - I think we've had a few elegance coral rescues in this thread...not sure what page....you might want to look through it to find out who had some luck with those. Good luck!!


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Unread 11/07/2012, 11:16 PM   #358
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Newby - nice call on fragging that chalice up. It looked pretty...well...just gross. Did all those corals come from the same place? Was it water chemistry? That chalice looked like how I've been seeing some chalices with black bugs lately, but that doesn't sound like the case.
Got it from a friends tank that had a HUGE heat spike when he was gone one weekend.


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Unread 11/08/2012, 07:56 AM   #359
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Here is a baby duncan that was damaged by the person I bought it from, trying to frag it. I bought it still, as a challenge to bring it back. The pic below is it after a 2 hours in my tank.




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Unread 11/08/2012, 05:35 PM   #360
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Got it from a friends tank that had a HUGE heat spike when he was gone one weekend.
Wow, I'm surprised there was that much tissue left in that case. Heat spikes are the worst!!!


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Unread 11/08/2012, 05:37 PM   #361
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Wildman - I had a poorly fragged duncan that looked quite similar when I got it 6 years ago. Seems like they do pretty well with bad fragging (thankfully!) I'd keep it in pretty low flow to prevent the tissue from tearing further. Keep us posted!


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Unread 11/24/2012, 10:55 AM   #362
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So, I went a little crazy last night and got a ton of rescues...including an elegance coral. I've never tried to keep one...much less save one...so here we go!

There are two pieces left on the skeleton. In the photo it was in a Bayer Insecticide dip.


Here it is about ready for cutting. The skeleton was covered in Aiptasia.


It was also covered in flatworms. The LFS owner said they are LPS-eating flatworms, but I haven't been able to ID these as such. Any idea?


Here's one half starting to come out...


And the other half starting to eat...


Cross your fingers! They're barely starting to come out today, so we'll see.


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Unread 11/24/2012, 11:57 AM   #363
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Even more exciting...a rescue scolymia released what I'm pretty sure was a sperm cloud last night. I'm not sure what sparked this event considering there are no other scolymia in the tank, and it's not the typical time of year of coral reproduction. It released a quickly-dissipating white stream for about 5 minutes. I should note that I don't believe this was a "last ditch effort" to reproduce before imminent death. This coral is now pretty healthy and is starting to color up.






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Unread 11/24/2012, 01:54 PM   #364
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I had a bleaching lobo do that when I first brought it home and put it in my stable tank. I had no clue what it was doing but now it's colored up nicely.


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Unread 11/24/2012, 01:57 PM   #365
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We had to rescue this one from ourselves 3 times. My boyfriend bought some equipment from a guy when the tank was just 3 months old & he threw in this war coral frag for free. I'd never kept one before, so I was nervous with it in such a young tank. It did OK for a while & grew 11 mouths from 2, then my boyfriend added biopellets & everything in the tank almost died. He took them offline & put too much carbon in the reactor, so the water was so clear everything got light shocked! Next it got knocked off onto a mushroom 2 days in a row for 8 hours. It just keeps coming back.

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March 2011, losing color but lots of mouths.


May 2011, bleached like crazy so I moved it to much more shade (hard to do in our tank). This was after the biopellet/carbon debacle.


August 2011, recovering color in the shade.


November 2011, it got dropped onto a mushroom coral 2 days in a row for 8 hours each time.


May 2012, taking over the rock around its frag plug.


September 2012, happily feeding. You can't even see the frag plug anymore.



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Unread 11/27/2012, 08:37 AM   #366
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This thread is a real inspiration for those of us that have corals that are struggling!
I have a goniopora that I've been trying to nurse along for the past 8 months or so with very minimal luck...I'm going to try your methods and see what I can do with it.
I'll be posting some pics of it thru the process, hopefully it ends well!


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Unread 11/28/2012, 10:31 PM   #367
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wow. great job. they look great now!


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Unread 11/30/2012, 09:57 PM   #368
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Just got this scoly today from Premium. It's an awesome orange rainbow color under the lights.


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Unread 12/01/2012, 09:13 AM   #369
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Nice find! Looks very healthy...just misshapen. If I were you, I'd find someone with a bandsaw and have them cut around the polyp to get all the red algae on there. It's not fun stuff to deal with. The polyp should be more than healthy enough to go through a quick skeleton trim.


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Unread 12/01/2012, 02:57 PM   #370
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Right up next to the flesh? Wouldn't it take longer to grow a new skeleton than to grow over the old one? I took all the algae off and scrubbed it.


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Unread 12/01/2012, 03:36 PM   #371
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I've found that corals will extend their tissue faster if they aren't trying to grow over old skeleton...or at least not over large septa (the "teeth"-like projections.) I either smooth out the skeleton or I remove the unused portions entirely. I've cut a few like yours so they looked semi-circularly for a while. Now, even though there is no skeleton under half of it, you'd never notice looking at it. They just seem to react better to it...not sure why. I have some I rescued that I left the skeleton intact...and they still aren't circular even though I got them before I got the ones that I cut.

But, if you removed the algae...then good. That's the important bit.


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Unread 12/01/2012, 03:58 PM   #372
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Ok, new to the hobby and a week after i bought a cool red/green rock i noticed what looked like a brown film had formed on it. turns out it is regrowing. this was when i first notied.



and this was taken November 30. After reading that a few have trimmed off the skeleton, I wonder if i should or not or just leave it run its course. any suggestions with this would help. is it bleached? is that normal for color to be like that while regrowing?? i have T5x6 and have the coral about halfway up





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The Duncan I posted above has not made any progress, but has not died, so that is a good thing.

Here is a scoly I traded a frag for. It is missing 1/3 of it's shell, and is on the mend. This is pic is 6 hours in my tank -




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Unread 12/01/2012, 07:17 PM   #374
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Luvzz - Wow...nice find on a piece of rock! That's a "chalice" coral...usually worth a pretty penny depending on coloration. The second photo you posted is definitely bleached. You'll need to move it to a lower light area. It also has some cyanobacteria growing on it, so you'll need to regularly use a pipette/turkey baster to squirt it off. Since the coral has lost most of its photosynthetic algae (zooxanthallae), you'll need to feed it about 3x per week. In order to do that, you can turn off the flow in the aquarium (preferably after the lights have been out an hour), and drop a fish food pellet onto each mouth (the eye-looking spots that still have some color.) Within 30 minutes, the coral should extend tentacles and open its mouth to eat. If it doesn't, don't worry. Just remove the food and turn the flow back on and try again another night.

Wildman - Have you tried feeding the duncan? They can be pretty voracious eaters, so that might help speed it along. Nice on the scoly trade...but what's that coming out of its mouth?

SushiGirl - That poor thing! Has the worst luck, but at least it isn't giving up! Good job on all the saves!


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Unread 12/01/2012, 10:52 PM   #375
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@Mech - Thx, I REALLY appreciate the advice. I've posted a few pics elsewhere asking for help and got none so was glad to stumble across this thread. I didn't know if i should move it up or down... increase the water flow or decrease it. I just knew that it had been getting better but was afraid to mess it up since it started getting better right where it was.
Took your advice and moved it to the sand bed. I "accidentally" found out i could feed it food and I have been feeding it cut up mysis shrimp now for about 2 weeks. The first 4 weeks i had it i didn't feed it.
Once again, thank you.

Question.... does the color of the skeleton in any way tell what color the chalice will end up being? Colors would be great if it did.



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